Ok, so now we are just 1 month from our first Mo Runs with London, Greenwich Park , Cardiff, and Milton Keynes happening on the 12th and 13th of Movember 2011.

If you haven’t registered yet, that’s fine, we still have places available so gather some friends to Mo-tivate yourself and create your own team. If you aleady have we just want to give you some training ideas in case you don’t have any.

Our friends from Men’s Running magazine have a easy to follow 8 weeks training plan that we want to share with you. Obviously, we are now closer to 4 weeks from the race day, so you will have to start it from week 3 to 6 (we presume you are able to run 3 to 4 km).

If you are a beginner, don’t stress, you will do fine as soon you don’t try to run too fast or too hard during your training and during the race. We don’t want you get injured before the Mo-Day!

Running at least 2 or 3 times a week is a good thing to consider on a normal basis. This plan splits the workouts in 4 types of sessions.

• Easy jog : just to wake up the legs and freshen up
• Jog : that should be an enjoyable run at conversational pace
• X Train : go to the Park and mix it up with some little sprints, hills, dips, push-up, abs : anything that could help you to reinforce your core strength.
• LSR aka Long Sunday Run is where you take the time to go for a longer one still at normal pace. This is where you build up your endurance.

This training plan is quite simple and we don’t want to overcomplicate things with complicated paces, tempo run. So don’t worry too much about all the technical stuffs or if you don’t have a GPS watch. You just need some trainers and run with your style.

If you are not a beginner, you can find other ‘no brainers’ training plans here : 

One last thing, if you want to be that guy from the video ! So be it! We welcome every runner!

Run with joy! – Peter H – Yeovil